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Dieter Kranzlmüller [email protected]

A European Vision and Plan for a Common Grid Infrastructure

European Grid Initiativewww.eu-egi.org


Why Sustainability?

• Scientific applications start to depend on Grid infrastructures (EGEE, DEISA, …)

• New scientific collaborations have been formed thanks to the Grid infrastructure

• Business and Industry are getting very interested but need a long term perspective

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SustainabilityNeed to prepare permanent Common Grid infrastructure• High quality of service for all user communities• Independent of short project funding cycles• Managed in collaboration with National Grid Initiatives (NGIs)


Grids in Europe

• Examples of National Grid projects: – Austrian Grid Initiative– Belgium: BEgrid– DutchGrid – France: Grid’5000– Germany: D-Grid; Unicore– Greece: HellasGrid– Grid Ireland – Italy: INFNGrid; GRID.IT– NDGF– Portuguese Grid– Swiss Grid– UK e-Science: National Grid Service; OMII; GridPP – …

http://www.unicore.org/index.htm

http://cagraidsvr06.cs.tcd.ie/index.html

http://grid.infn.it/index.php?infngrid

http://www.grid.it/

http://www.ngs.ac.uk/

http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/


Evolution

Testbeds Utility ServiceRoutine Usage

National

Global

European e-Infrastructure

http://www.diligentproject.org/

http://www.deisa.org/

http://www.unicore.org/index.htm

http://cagraidsvr06.cs.tcd.ie/index.html

http://grid.infn.it/index.php?infngrid

http://www.grid.it/

http://www.ngs.ac.uk/

http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/

http://www.recherche.gouv.fr/recherche/aci/grid.htm


A European Vision …

• for a universal e-Infrastructure for research(1)

“An environment where research resources (H/W, S/W & content) can

be readily shared and accessed wherever this is necessary to promote

better and more effective research”(1) Malcolm Read (Ed.) http://www.e-irg.org/meetings/2005-UK/A_European_vision_for_a_Universal_e-Infrastructure_for_Research.pdf

http://www.e-irg.org/meetings/2005-UK/A_European_vision_for_a_Universal_e-Infrastructure_for_Research.pdf


e-IRG Recommendations on Sustainable e-Infrastructures

I: governments and the Commission should develop policies and mechanisms to encourage increased investment in a more coherent and interoperable way across Europe

II: the existing e-Infrastructure projects must be superseded by integrated sustainable services at national and European levels

III: e-Infrastructures must be application-neutral and open to all user communities and resource providers. National funding agencies should be encouraged to fund multi-disciplinary and inclusive infrastructures rather than disciplinary-specific alternatives


e-IRG Recommendations on Sustainable e-Infrastructures

IV: e-Infrastructures must inter-operate and adopt international standard services and protocols in order to qualify for funding

V: the Commission should, within the seventh Framework Programme, develop a pan-European e-Infrastructure which explicitly encourages the further integration of national e-Infrastructure initiatives

e-IRG Task Force on Sustainable e-Infrastructures (SeI)http://www.e-irg.org/publ/2006-Report_e-IRG_TF-SEI.pdf


European Commission

“…for Grids we would like to see the move towards long-term sustainable initiatives

less dependent upon EU-funded project cycles”

• Viviane Reding, Commissioner, European Commission, at the EGEE’06 Conference, September 25, 2006


Slide courtesy of Kyriakos Baxevanidis, EC

Broad scale test-beds

Production quality

facilities

Sustainable

e-Infrastructures

(utility model)

Sustainable grid/data-based e-

Infrastructures (utility model)

Towards sustainable grid-empowered e-Infrastructures


Slide courtesy of Kyriakos Baxevanidis, EC

The first e-Infrastructure Call in FP7

Year 2009Year 2008Year 2007

DRAFT

1. e-Science Grid Infrastructures

2. Scientific Digital Repositories

3. Deployment of e-Infrastructures for new Scientific Communities

5. New Research Infrastructures – Design studies

6. New Research Infrastructures – Preparatory phase

7. Support measures (studies, policy initiatives,international co-operation,…)

Publication: early 2007Closure: spring 2007

•Support conceptual design studies for new RI (or major upgrades of existing ones) of clear European dimension and interest; such studies will help to assess technical and financial feasibility of proposed new RI

•Action should also foster emergence of new organisational models to consolidate a sustainable approach to e-Infrastructures, in particular in the domain of grids and data repositories

•New service provisioning schemes to be more neutral and open to all user communities and resource providers


EGI Design Study

• Project Proposal to be submitted to the European Commission for funding withinFP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-1, 1.2.1 Design Studies (May 2, 2007)

• EGI Preparation Team:Participant no. Participant organisation name Short name Country 1 (Coordinator) Institut für Graphische und Parallele Datenverarbeitung

der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz GUP A

2 Greek Research and Technology Network – GRNET S.A. GRNET GR 3 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare INFN I 4 CSC – Scientific Computing Ltd. CSC FI 5 CESNET, z.s.p.o. CESNET CZ 6 European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN CH 7 Verein zur Förderung eines Deutschen Foschungsnet-

zen – DFN-Verein DFN D

8 Science & Technology Facilities Council STFC UK 9 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS F


European Grid Initiative

EGI WorkshopFebruary 26-27, 2007, Munich, Germany

Goals:• to inform interested parties (NGIs) about the

planned EGI Design Study proposal• to discuss the status of the different NGIs in

Europe with respect of their involvement in EGI• to ask the NGIs for their support in the EGI

efforts

www.eu-egi.org/workshop


European Grid Initiative

• Federated model bringing together NGIs to build a European organisation

• Main goal: to coordinate the operation of a common multi-national, multi-disciplinary Grid infrastructure– Enables and supports international Grid-based

collaboration– Provides support and adds value to NGIs– Liaises with corresponding infrastructures outside

Europe• Responsibilities between NGIs and EGI are split

to be federated and complimentary

Draft


Characteristics of NGIs

Each NGI • … should be a recognized national body with a

single point-of-contact • … should mobilise national funding and

resources• … should operate the national e-Infrastructure• … should supports user communities

(application independent, and open to new user communities and resource providers)

• … should contribute and adhere to international standards and policies

Draft


Getting Involved

• EGI Advisory Board (AB):– The AB Consists of representatives from the National Grid

Initiatives (NGIs) of the EU27 and other eligible countries—one NGI/representative per country.

– The AB is the formal forum for the NGIs to guide the EGI Design Study.

– The AB and the involvement of the NGIs are essential for the project, since the outcome of the EGI Design Study, the proposed EGI organization, must be established and governed by the NGIs.

– The whole work of the EGI Design Study is dedicated to this goal and as much as possible consensus with AB members has to be achieved in all steps necessary to design and later establish the EGI.


Getting Involved

• EGI Advisory Board (AB): (continued)– The AB is created before the start of the project to accompany

the preparation of EGI Design, providing in-formation, feedback and advice for the achievement of the overall project goals.

– Participating NGIs formally appoint their representatives in the EGI Design Project AB as soon as possible.

– The project will organize a series of at least four workshops, where interaction between the AB and the project partners will be enabled.

– A mailing list for internal AB communication will be set up and all relevant material on the project will be available on the EGI web page, thus allowing contributions from the NGI representatives.


Getting Involved

• EGI Advisory Board: NGI Representatives

• EGI Workshops: – 10/07: Requirements Consolidation & Use Case Def.

– 03/08: Discussion of Interim Papers of WP3, 4, 5

– 07/08: Draft final Papers on EGI Structure

– 03/09: Transition of EGEE3 to EGI like Structure

– 10/09: EGI Launch Workshop

• NGI Mailinglist: [email protected]

• EGI Webpage: www.eu-egi.org


Schedule

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